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THE NATIONAL NURSERYMAN 
The National Nurseryman 
Established 1893 by C. L. YATES. Incorporated 1902 
Published monthly by 
THE NATIONAL NURSERYMAN PUBLISHING CO., Inc. 
Hatboro, Pa. 
Editor .ERNEST HEMMING, Flourtown, Pa. 
The leading trade journal issued for Growers and Dealers in 
Nursery Stocks of all kinds. It circulates throughout the 
United States, Canada and Europe. 
AWARDED THE GRAND PRIZE AT PARIS EXPOSITION, 1900 
something else that would he acceptable to the buying 
public. 
It would work a double injury to a large part of the 
trade if after it had adjusted itself to the new conditions, 
the Quarantine had produced in the country, the law 
should be repealed, and foreign stock be allowed entry. 
We publish on a separate page the preliminary report 
of the Joint Committee on Horticultural Quarantine. It 
is very doubtful if this report would have the endorse¬ 
ment of the majority of the nursery trade. 
SUBSCRIPTION RATES 
One Year in Advance .$1.50 
Foreign Subscriptions, in advance .$2.00 
Six Months .$1.00 
Advertising rates will he sent npon application. Advertisements 
should reach this office by the 20th of the month previous to the date 
of issue. 
Payment in advance required for foreign advertisements. Drafts 
on New York or postal orders, instead of checks, are requested by the 
Business Manager, Hatboro, Fa. 
Correspondence from all points and articles of interest to nursery¬ 
men and horticulturists are cordially solicited. 
Photographs and news notes of interest to nurserymen should be 
addressed. Editor, Flourtown, Fa., and should be mailed to arrive not 
later than the 25th of the month. 
Entered as second-class matter June 22, 1916, at the post office at 
Hatboro, Pennsylvania, under the Act of March S, 1879. 
Hatboro, Pa., December 1920 
.Trustworthy 
Ylrees & Plants 
Members v 
American Association 
OF NURSERYMEN 
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OTIATI ANTING ^7 11 1S possible man ^ nurserymen who 
QUAHAN1INE 37 were very antagonistic to the Quar- 
antine 37 when it first went into ef¬ 
fect, would be in favor of its repeal. 
Like good citizens ol a Democracy, they growled and 
grumbled and lreely expressed their opinions of the 
Quarantine criticized the way it was put into operation, 
questioned the reasons given lor its necessity, but at the 
same time accepted it as the law of the land and true to 
he sp,r,t of American enterprise, began to organize their 
ImMness to meet the new conditions the Quarantine pro- 
They began m invest their brains, labor and capital to 
norts if a nnt U ? dh°?n Ced , by the St ° P1,age of fo, ' ci g" 
1 1 ' lf rlnt Wlth thc identical plants, why then with 
THE TOLL OF PLANT DISEASES 
Here are some of the losses to American farmers in the United 
States in one year by plant diseases which might have been pre¬ 
vented if known control measures had been immediately applied: 
Wheat, 112,000,000 bushels; oats, 50,000,000 bushels; corn, 80,000,- 
000 bushels; potatoes, 50,000,000 bushels; sweet potatoes, 40,000,- 
000 bushels (two-fifths of the total crop); tomatoes, 185,000 tons; 
cotton, 850,000 bales; peaches, 5,000,000 bushels; apples, 16,000,- 
000 bushels. The figures were compiled for the year 1919 by the 
Plant Disease Survey of the Bureau of Plant Industry, United 
States Department of Agriculture. 
Iii compiling the above the Bureau of Plant Industry 
has been playing the children’s game of supposing. 
Why not play the game to a finish and keep on suppos¬ 
ing what would happen if the “might have been” really 
happened. 
Without disease and crop failure present plantings 
would produce more than could be harvested, transported 
or used. Farming and gardening would soon be a lost 
art, no skill and little labor would be required to pro¬ 
duce all the crops necessary. 
We might as well keep on supposing there would be 
no disease among animals and incidentally no disease or 
death among human beings if proper controll measures 
were used. The game ends here as the imagination gives 
out. 
CONTROL APPLE BLOTCH AGAIN THIS SEASON 
Apple blotch which has been causing an annual loss 
of thousands of dollars in Ohio and which has been in¬ 
creasing rapidly for several years is being controlled. 
Last year demonstrations were conducted in Clermont. 
Sciota, Lawrence, Hamilton, and Warren Counties. 
Where blotched trees were sprayed, 90 per cent, of the 
fruit was free from blemish and the remaining portion 
was marketable. On unsprayed blotched trees 90 per 
cent of the fruit was blotched so badly that it was un¬ 
marketable. 
This season’s demonstrations in the same sections 
showed a repetition of the results. 
On the average the cost of spraying per tree was from 
30 to 30 cents, including the sprays for codling moth. 
I our sprays were applied—two, four, six, and ten weeks 
after the petals fall. The second- and ten-weeks spray 
was for codling moth and contained 1 y 2 pounds of pow¬ 
dered arsenate of lead, in addition to the regular spray 
which consisted of three pounds of bluestone, five pounds 
ol hydrated lime, and water to make 30 gallons of solu¬ 
tion. Phis year’s results have again emphasized the im¬ 
portance of the two-weeks spray and the need of apply¬ 
ing it very thoroughly. 
Dr. Martin Krolger has sold his nursery at Remo, Bri¬ 
tish Columbia. 
